Student achievements

Mgr. Ema Šipková

Ema Šipková, a former Masaryk University student, can boast several achievements thanks to her hard work!

She received her Bachelor’s degree in 2023 and her Master’s degree in 2025 for research on the variability of upper-main-sequence stars with sinusoidal light curves. During her studies she also tried modelling exoplanet atmospheres during an internship in Vienna.

The quality of her work was recognised in the prestigious international journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, which published a paper based on this research in March 2026 (you can find it here).

She graduated from Masaryk University with honours and received the Dean’s Award. Her research path between stellar and exoplanet spectroscopy then took her to KU Leuven, where she is now a PhD student studying the masses of intermediate-mass and massive stars using pulsating binaries.